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People pass in front of a Daiwa Securities centre that houses a board showing the latest financial results in Ginza, Tokyo. European stocks have fallen sharply in early Thursday trading, after the main Japanese index plummeted in Tokyo. With fears continuing that interest rate rises in the US will hit global growth, Japan's Nikkei ended the day down 463 points, or 3%, at 14,633. This was the Nikkei's biggest one-day drop in a year, and the first time it had fallen below 15,000 in 2006..